Bottleneck: little jobs and emotional friction
Thanks to JG. A particularly troublesome breed of little job are things left undone that hold up the work of other people – a decision… Read More »Bottleneck: little jobs and emotional friction
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Friction (4): mental overhead and nameless dread
Mental Overhead Another type of friction we experience is from the ongoing mental overhead of having too many balls in the air. Unfinished projects, unanswered… Read More »Friction (4): mental overhead and nameless dread
Friction (3): when friction helps
Friction in the wrong places slows us down and drains our energy, but it has its uses: Friction in processes or emotional friction it’s often… Read More »Friction (3): when friction helps
Friction (2): emotional friction
This is a different kind of friction: the uncertainty, delay and discomfort that comes from lack of trust or understanding. Like bureaucratic or procedural friction,… Read More »Friction (2): emotional friction
Friction (1): costs to convenience
Friction is anything that makes it harder to for us to get something done – buy a product or use a service, do our jobs,… Read More »Friction (1): costs to convenience
Organisational friction
is caused by things in your working day that you live with or work around but that sap your time, energy or attention and make… Read More »Organisational friction
Design Matters (8): Where’s that file?
I can make a reasonably sensible filing system, but tend to fall down when it comes to the practice of administrative maintenance. Like personal hygiene,… Read More »Design Matters (8): Where’s that file?
The Office of Strategic Services (1944) on how to sabotage your organisation through bureaucracy
I stumbled across the OSS Simple Sabotage Field Manual on Project Gutenberg and had to give it a skim. (The OSS was a U.S. intelligence… Read More »The Office of Strategic Services (1944) on how to sabotage your organisation through bureaucracy
Recommendation: Bryne Hobart (The Diff) on Stripe, ecosystems and the infrastucture of the internet
This is a great (long) article about what Stripe is up to with a lot of interesting detail about how the internet works as a… Read More »Recommendation: Bryne Hobart (The Diff) on Stripe, ecosystems and the infrastucture of the internet
That which gets in the way of the mission: on having The Conversation quickly
That which gets in the way of my mission is my mission. Tim Ferriss, quoting somebody If you have that feeling that something is up… Read More »That which gets in the way of the mission: on having The Conversation quickly